The Arcane Society of Aergoth was a powerful organization led by the archmage Laycindarius, whose advances in magic were largely responsible for the dominance of the Aergosian Empire that peaked in the Age of Knowledge . After Laycindarius' exile from Akrylonor they would separate in an ensuing civil war and become the city state of Laycin's founders.
History
Age of Knowledge[]
Laycindarius would found the Arcane Society as a means to further progress his ambitions when he joined the prominent city state of Aergoth as its Grand Magus. As the Society advanced magic even further by using the new source of ether Laycindarius had tapped into, they became increasingly inteegral to every facet of Aergoth's society, while at the same time becoming more distant and ambitious from the Aergosian "mundanes" or folk without magic.
Their rise to prominence and rapidly growing power (along with several disasters) soon attracted the attention of the Arbiters, who made contact with Adam Belamont and his companions and utilized them to investigate tthe Society's methods. Discovering the corruption within the Society, Belamont and his companions would launch an attack on Laycindarius himself as a diversion, while the Last Arbiter and the Elder Dragon Yvera created The Shard to banish the Grand Magus from Akrylonor.
Age of Wars[]
Already blamed for much of the First Daemon War , and now missing their great leader (and several other members of its high council defeated by The Companions .), the society found itself being examined far more closely by Aergoth's ruling nobility. Many had already fled the capital for retreats, and when the assassination of Aergoth's Emperor Rauthus Calium IV occurred blame was cast fully upon the society and it was banished and outlawed by decree.
The society would reform in Aergoths newest colony, on the remote eastern coast of Idryllia , and proved resilient in forming a defense against crusading forces from Aergoth. The new city of Laycin would engage Aergoth for over a century in one of the many wars that gave the Age of Wars its name. During this period it would gradually shed its former identity.